Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/15/15, 9:46 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: Where are you seeing discouragement of pilot projects? In the tone and content of the responses on this thread, including this one where it feels to me you are again using the maintenance and training costs to

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/15/15, 6:35 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: ...*historically*, when this kind of thing has happened (project implements, thing becomes critical), gradually it becomes the responsibility of Infra,

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
with the appropriate people (thanks Pierre). Ross -Original Message- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:22 AM To: dev Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal On 1/15/15, 6:35 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: ...Infra should be encouraged to learn new things if the ROI is established by the pilot program... Of course, but when you have to maintain systems for years the investment is huge...so the return has to be huge as well.

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Pierre Smits
To put that last sentence in a more positive manner: The future looks bright and is multi-coloured! But it is shrouded in layers of mists. Unfortunately, so is the future influx of funds. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Pierre Smits
Maybe we should considering changing the subject as this seems bigger than just an overhaul of one of the front ends of the ASF? Yes, it all has to do with the ROI (the benefits at large vs the costs) for the ASF. And such need to be determined regarding the future, not the present day or the

New ComDev VM (was: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal)

2015-01-15 Thread Daniel Gruno
simple improvements I can make in a coffee break at work :-) Ross -Original Message- From: Daniel Gruno [mailto:humbed...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:43 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal On 2015-01-14 18:37, Jacques

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Pierre Smits
See inline. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: I was probing the notion that it

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/14/2015 06:42 PM, Alex Harui wrote: I was probing the notion that it might be to the advantage of the OFBiz community to just volunteer something instead of being asked. Maybe the folks on this list know the other Apache projects better than I do, but I wouldn’t even know what to ask

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-15 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: ...*historically*, when this kind of thing has happened (project implements, thing becomes critical), gradually it becomes the responsibility of Infra, not of the project, to do ongoing maintenance Yes, this is why I'm

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread sebb
I think it is a good idea to replace the current projects.a.o build system because it is extremely complicated currently. It even has its own build system partly based on XML,and the build tools are spread over at least two parts of SVN. The build requires Perl, XSLT and I think there's now some

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
You are correct. And I am aware that budgets are limitied. But I don't what the budget will be nor decide where the money of the ASF flows. I can only ask for some of it regarding a project. And even then, I won't consider doing so for something that could be perceived as a pet project of Pierre

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
Like some have expressed in earlier messages in this thread this endeavour could take up some time. Especially when requirements are not clear. And let's not forget, the OFBiz community volunteers their effort to get to a better OFBiz product. They have the tools in place for that. If the ASF

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Alex Harui
I was probing the notion that it might be to the advantage of the OFBiz community to just volunteer something instead of being asked. Maybe the folks on this list know the other Apache projects better than I do, but I wouldn’t even know what to ask for. The project I’m involved in, Apache Flex,

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
Indeed, an integrated approach and subsequent solution could help in delivering information in a unified way and reduce resource consumption. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail Trade

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal Hi folks, I was having a conversation with Rich (Bowen) some weeks ago, and the sentiment was that our projects page ( projects.apache.org http://projects.apache.org ) could use a big overhaul. It's outdated, not very user friendly, doesn't really compile the data

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail -Original Message- From: Daniel Gruno [mailto:humbed...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 06:19 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
See inline, On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: First off, comdev needs to officially accept the task of maintaining the site. It is currently maintained by infra, which has no interest in running it. Which internal organisation of the ASF takes

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-14 14:40, Rich Bowen wrote: On 01/14/2015 06:48 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: Hi folks, I was having a conversation with Rich (Bowen) some weeks ago, and the sentiment was that our projects page ( projects.apache.org http://projects.apache.org ) could use a big overhaul. It's outdated,

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
. Ross Sent from my Windows Phone From: Pierre Smitsmailto:pierre.sm...@gmail.com Sent: ‎1/‎14/‎2015 5:29 AM To: dev@community.apache.orgmailto:dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal I agree with Daniel that (several) ASF

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 14 Jan 2015, at 06:48, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: I have been working on a proposal that follows these ideas, which is available for preview at http://projects.apache.pw/ for those interested. Only the first two tabs in the menu currently work (and the extensive

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: ...The site itself is 100% static HTML+JavaScript, I haven't added any arcane Lua/PHP/whatever scripts to it ;) Oh no...it's not really ASF if it doesn't have arcane stuff in it that no one can maintain after a few

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-14 15:39, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Daniel Gruno humbed...@apache.org wrote: ...The site itself is 100% static HTML+JavaScript, I haven't added any arcane Lua/PHP/whatever scripts to it ;) Oh no...it's not really ASF if it doesn't have arcane

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal On 14 Jan 2015, at 10:36, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) ross.gard...@microsoft.com wrote: As I said when you originally raised this I would recommend focusing on a committee that tracks other data, data that is not currently well structured. Trademarks, media

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
@community.apache.orgmailto:dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal Like INFRA is expected to host/support svn instances, etc. All dependant on the requirements of the ASF. OFBiz is the open source business enablement suite of the ASF (the works - as a result

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal Like INFRA is expected to host/support svn instances, etc. All dependant on the requirements of the ASF. OFBiz is the open source business enablement suite of the ASF (the works - as a result of the project being an ASF

RE: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
- From: Daniel Gruno [mailto:humbed...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:43 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal On 2015-01-14 18:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Just as a note for the sake of truth, OFBiz has Content component http

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Just as a note for the sake of truth, OFBiz has Content component http://projects.apache.pw/projects.html?category#content I very like what I saw, kudos! Jacques Le 14/01/2015 12:48, Daniel Gruno a écrit : Hi folks, I was having a conversation with Rich (Bowen) some weeks ago, and the

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-14 18:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Just as a note for the sake of truth, OFBiz has Content component http://projects.apache.pw/projects.html?category#content http://ofbiz.apache.org/doap_OFBiz.rdf disagrees ;-) but, assuming this gets accepted into comdev, you needn't worry about

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 14/01/2015 18:42, Daniel Gruno a écrit : On 2015-01-14 18:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Just as a note for the sake of truth, OFBiz has Content component http://projects.apache.pw/projects.html?category#content http://ofbiz.apache.org/doap_OFBiz.rdf disagrees ;-) but, assuming this gets

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal On 2015-01-14 18:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Just as a note for the sake of truth, OFBiz has Content component http://projects.apache.pw/projects.html?category#content http://ofbiz.apache.org/doap_OFBiz.rdf disagrees ;-) but, assuming this gets

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Yes, it's great to have 3 OFBiz demos available, we (me on behalf of the OFBiz team) thank you (the infra team) for that! We could though give one back to infra or the ASF at large ;) Note: I'm not volunterring to support Pierre's idea ;) Jacques Le 14/01/2015 17:45, Daniel Gruno a écrit :

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
I agree with Daniel that (several) ASF pages could do with an overhaul to make them more up-to-date regarding usebility and functionality. This is inline with what I said earlier in a thread in this mailing list (see:

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Pierre Smits
Why don't we create an improvement issue in the JIRA of comdev to track issues regarding this proposal. That will ensure that everything regarding requirements, suggestions, approaches etc is registered in one place and (amongst others) sub-tasks can be registered to track progress. Regards,

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/14/2015 06:48 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote: Hi folks, I was having a conversation with Rich (Bowen) some weeks ago, and the sentiment was that our projects page ( projects.apache.org http://projects.apache.org ) could use a big overhaul. It's outdated, not very user friendly, doesn't really

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/14/2015 08:28 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: I agree with Daniel that (several) ASF pages could do with an overhaul to make them more up-to-date regarding usebility and functionality. This is inline with what I said earlier in a thread in this mailing list (see:

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
Replies in-line On 2015-01-14 14:28, Pierre Smits wrote: I agree with Daniel that (several) ASF pages could do with an overhaul to make them more up-to-date regarding usebility and functionality. This is inline with what I said earlier in a thread in this mailing list (see:

Re: projects.apache.org overhaul proposal

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 2015-01-14 15:04, Pierre Smits wrote: Why don't we create an improvement issue in the JIRA of comdev to track issues regarding this proposal. That will ensure that everything regarding requirements, suggestions, approaches etc is registered in one place and (amongst others) sub-tasks can be